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Dyrseve989

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I am preparing for a shot in which I will be following a subject walking on a dolly while panning from feet to head. My shoot is in 24pa - and I plan on doing this shot in 60i for playback in slow motion.

my question is, considering the speed that the camera will be moving and the movment of the character - what is the ideal speed or complete time frame the pan should take place in to get a very smooth slow motion when 60i is changed to 24fps?

thanks for any help

-Matt-
 
My guess is to pan slowly (I think 7 seconds from left to right, check the ASC Manual suggested panning speed) as if you were shooting 24P; being that this will be the speed it will play, but in essence the pan will be even slower when you go from 60i to 24P. Its a good question. Logically you would think that you can pan 1 1/2 times less than 7 seconds being that you are shooting 60i; bringing the panning speed to the two seconds range. I would experiment with this. Your worries are strobing, so of course, you will be following the talent in the pan. I would take a chance at panning around 3 seconds. Anyone care to take a wack at this?
 
Plan out in your head how long you want the shot to last, and then divide that by 2.5, and that's how long your source shot should last. Then practice it first on a test shot, to see how smooth it is.
 
Dyrseve989 said:
I am preparing for a shot in which I will be following a subject walking on a dolly while panning from feet to head. My shoot is in 24pa - and I plan on doing this shot in 60i for playback in slow motion.

my question is, considering the speed that the camera will be moving and the movment of the character - what is the ideal speed or complete time frame the pan should take place in to get a very smooth slow motion when 60i is changed to 24fps?

thanks for any help

-Matt-
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I'm confused by you post. Going from feet to head is a tilt, not a pan, unless it's on a person that's horizontal. You also say a person will be "walking on a dolly"? What does that mean?

as far as shooting time, it depends on actual screen time you want the shot to last. You need to mental, with a stopwatch, time the completed shot as you would be watching it in the finished DVD. Then divide that by the slow motion rate you're converting. To put it in a very simple form, at least twice as fast a tilt as you want to show on screen.
 
i apologize for my misscomunication, you are correct, I did mean tilt - and I arrange my sentence structure like an 8 year old, So what I meant to say was that I will be using a dolly to stay in front of the subject as they walk toward the camera - and during that time I will be tilting the camera from feet to head.
 
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